Participation/Lab/methodology

Mozilla Participation Lab Methodology
Team Lead: George Roter	Mailing List: Participation on Discourse
The Mozilla Participation Lab will build a strategy and outline new approaches to participation that will bring a step-change in the value that participation brings to Mozilla and Mozillians.

Learning Methodology

In the coming weeks the Participation Lab will be developing a systematic methodology for learning and evaluation.

This methodology will:

• Outline the beliefs and establish hypothesis related to participation
• Provide a standardized set-up and design for learning
• Incorporate volunteers throughout the process
• Create standards of validity and attribution
• Facilitate coordination and tracking
• Provide clear methods for data aggregation, analysis and synthesis

Method Framework:

1. Clear Goals and Hypotheses: Starts with a clear view of what the issue is that is being examined. View the Planning Framework for Experiments for more details.
2. Activity Design: Getting into details of how the activity could work including a measurement of investments being made and the value being created by each activity.
3. Quick Iteration:Moving quickly to implement the plans and to acquire preliminary data.
4. Analysis of Return on Investment for Mozilla and Mozillians:Analyze results in terms of efficacy. How well did it accomplish the initial goal? Is the hypothesis still valid?
5. Redesign a new iteration, or end the experiment:Based on initial data from (4) decide whether to adjust, redesign or terminate the experiment.
6. Repeat (3) to (5)
7. Document lessons: Synthesis data and clearly document results.